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Smokiana: Historical; Ethnographical

Chapter 17: STANLEY. EXPEDITION. Central AFRICA & Equatoria.
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A richly illustrated survey documents the history, botany, and ethnography of tobacco and related smoking plants alongside a catalog of pipes and smoking apparatus from around the world. It describes botanical varieties of Nicotiana, regional smoking customs, and the materials and forms of pipes — clay, briar, soapstone, gourd, hookah and opium apparatus — and reproduces historic woodcuts and maker stamps. Organized as descriptive entries with images and captions, the work compares local manufacturing traditions, ceremonial uses, and changing fashions in smoking paraphernalia across Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific.

STANLEY. EXPEDITION.
Central AFRICA & Equatoria.

For this most interesting page we are indebted to Surgeon Parke who very kindly took the trouble to make sketches of the bowls & wrote the names under each. what better authority could we have than this.. it makes the page historically interesting. The hard clay of the sticky ant heaps takes a beautiful polish see the KAVALLI bowl Albert NYANZA. The most original is from AREWENI & ITURI Forest where the little people take the mid rib of the “Banana” which is cellular & by pushing a reed down they get the bore required, cut a hole & rolling up a piece of Banana leaf.. like a Grocer’s paper insert that for a Bowl & smoke.